To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
William Cobbett
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.